Eyes Mark or Dark Eye: Causes, Symptoms, Remedies and Preventions

Eyes Mark or Dark Eye: Causes, Symptoms, Remedies and Preventions

Dark circles are a common problem nowadays. With people spending more hours in front of computer screens and less hours in bed, their incidence is definitely on the rise. They make you look chronically tired, dull, lethargic and in extreme cases, something out of a horror show.

Causes of Eyes Mark or Dark Eye

• Genetic: If your parents, aunts etc have it, you are more likely to develop it.
• Lack of sleep: The most common cause. In a metropolitan life, if you get 5-6 hours, you are lucky. The deficit builds up over months and causes darkening and puffiness due to poor circulation.
• Lack of proper nutrition: Diets deficient in fresh fruits and veggies lead to antioxidant deficiencies, which in turn cause pigmentary irregularities.
• Allergies: Chronic ones can be the cause of dark circles (especially hay fever, pollen allergies etc)
• Over-exposure to computer monitors, television screens and such.
• Stress, chronic fatigue, anxiety.

Eyes Mark or Dark Eye Symptoms :

Black mark below the eyes associates with other physical problem like sleepless ness and tiredness.

Eyes Mark or Dark Eye Home remedies:

- By placing potatoes, cut round in shape,on your eyes. Leave it on for 10 - 15 mins. follow this method for 15 days. If you are allergic to potatoes then you can always use tomatoes or cucumber for good remedy. You can also apply milk cream around your eyes and leave it until it gets dried up.

- Use cucumber paste on around the eyes & wait 15 mins adn wash.

Here is a list of effective remedies form dark eyes:

• Improve your diet: Raw fruit and vegetables -- of at least 5 different colours (the brighter the better) must be included daily in your diet.

• Use a high-potency sunscreen around your eyes, because ultra-violet exposure can darken and worsen the existing problem. For the same reason, always wear sunglasses when outdoors.

• Use an excellent quality skin moisturiser (like Physiogel or Lipidz) that resembles natural moisturising factors and plumps up skin cells, making them look softer and lighter.

• Get your allergies treated by a good dermatologist or allergy specialist.

• Vitamin C is known to help under-eye pigmentation. High concentration creams or serums (eg C-VIT) are available on a dermatologist's prescription for home use.

• Consult your dermatologist for an argipeel. This is a revolutionary new treatment that can fade away your dark circles most effectively, without any damage to the sensitive under-eye skin or side-effects. Argipeels are gel peels containing arginine, derived from natural sources (ie brown sugar). Arginine activates the immune system, contributes to healing, helps eliminate toxins like ammonia, enhances blood circulation and increases collagen production. All this helps to decrease darkening and improve the quality of under-eye skin. You need one treatment every 10 days for 6-8 such sittings. Treatments are painless and quite affordable.

• 'Fillers' can be used to fill out the hollowness under the eyes that is responsible for shading and a dark effect. This is, however, an expensive treatment.

Eyes Mark or Dark Eye Prevention :

- Sleep 8hours a day. Drink 8 glasses or more water. Dont stay on computers for too long wihtout breaks , even TV. Avoid mental stress

- For all it's worth -- last piece of advice is to get enough sleep regularly and de-addict yourself from those computer screens. Dark circles are for pandas -- you deserve a flawless healthy complexion.